THE HEART OF VENGEANCE trilogy by Mei Goodwin to Penguin Michael Joseph (UK/Comm) in a six-figure deal and to Del Rey (NA) in a seven-figure deal. A fantasy trilogy with a sapphic romance, Chinese mythology influences, and winged horses, in which the heroine is wrongfully imprisoned for a crime she did not commit and must enact her vengeance and win back her true love.

Sunday Times bestselling author Andrea Stewart's PAPER DOLLS to Titan (UK/Comm) and to Sourcebooks (NA) following the estranged daughter of a Chinese-white Youtube family, whose entire childhood has been lived out online, who must return to the home she's tried to forget when a family friend and fellow influencer goes missing, presumed dead.

 Sunday Times bestselling author Jennifer Saint's THIS IMMORTAL HEART to Viking in a major six-figure deal (UK/Comm) and to Wendy Wong at Ballantine in a major six-figure deal (NA), pitched as a reimagining of the epic love story between Aphrodite and Ares, two opposing deities drawn to each other against all odds.

After turning down a first pre-empt attempt from a rival publisher, Faith Gladwin’s THE FINALIST, was successfully pre-empted by Grand Central Publishing’s John Morgan (NA) and Renegade Books’ Christina Demosthenous (UK/Comm) in a major mid-six figure deal less than 24 hours before the multiway auction was scheduled to begin. Pitched as Black Swan meets The Haunting of Hill House, THE FINALIST is an adult horror debut, following the fate of seven hopeful ballerinas as they audition for the solo of a lifetime in a remote manor house. One by one the ballerinas succumb to freak accidents, but who – or what – is killing the contestants?

UK/Commonwealth rights to STORMKEEPER by Jacinta Tomás were sold at auction to Chloe Gough at Harper Voyager for publication in 2027. In a world inspired by Portuguese culture and history, Stormkeeper follows Avila Santos, a farmhand whose rare elemental magic captures the attention of the palace, and those who believe in an ancient prophecy. The first in an epic fantasy trilogy, STORMKEEPER is as Leigh Bardugo’s The Familiar meets Maria V Snyder’s Poison Study.

UK/Commonwealth rights to FELLOW CREATURES, the debut novel by Emma Lowther were sold in a five-way auction for six-figures to Katherine Burdon at Quercus. To be published as a lead title in Spring 2026, FELLOW CREATURES is Saltburn meets If We Were Villains, with a dash of The Talented Mr Ripley, following outsider Shannon – a new student at one of London’s most prestigious drama schools – as she becomes dangerously infatuated with a fellow classmate.